Commands for large POSIX files

Large POSIX files (> 2 GB) can only be processed using commands which are suited to this (= large file aware). A number of commands recognize large files but will reject processing them (= large file safe). File processing commands which are neither large file safe nor large file aware should not be used to process large files.

The following table indicates which commands are large file aware and which are large file safe (in alphabetical order):

Attribute	Commands
large file aware	awk, bs2cp, cat, cd, chgrp, chmod, cmp, chown, cksum, compress, cp, cpio, df, diff, du, file, find, getconf, grep, hd, head, iconv, join, ln, ls, mkfifo, mknod, more, mv, pax, rcp, rm, rmdir, sh, split, sum, tail, tar, touch, tr, ulimit, uncompress, wc, zcat
large file safe	ar, comm, csplit, cut, dd, edt, edtu, egrep, expand, fgrep, fold, nl, od, paste, sort, strings, unexpand, vi